‘Be relentless,’ new UCLA graduates are told
Thousands of new UCLA graduates from ages 17 to 60 reveled inside Pauley Pavilion on Friday with cheers, fist pumping and many, many selfies as they officially received their bachelor’s degrees.
View ArticleUCLA No. 2 U.S. public university in Times Higher Education’s world...
The rankings assess the international prestige of institutions of higher learning based on input from academic leaders around the world.
View ArticleUCLA offers admission to 13,700 Californians for fall 2017
UCLA has offered admission to nearly 16,500 outstanding high school seniors and more than 5,500 transfer students for the 2017–2018 academic year.
View ArticleTechnique for measuring and controlling electron state is a breakthrough in...
“The dream is to have an array of hundreds or thousands of qubits all working together to solve a difficult problem,” said graduate student Joshua Schoenfield. “This work is an important step toward...
View ArticleNew center at UCLA raises everyone’s voices for environmental science
The campus is home to the first university-based center dedicated to diversity in the field.
View ArticleAstronomers find that the sun’s core rotates four times faster than its surface
Surprising observation might reveal what the sun was like when it formed
View ArticleUCLA project reveals ‘invisible’ presence of the Tongva
Scholars and tribe members develop educational resources that shed light on California’s indigenous past, sustainable future
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Where Are They Now: Andrew Nicholls
The Spring 2013 issue of the College Report magazine featured psychology major Andrew Nicholls’ military service and his veterans advocacy work at UCLA. We recently caught up with him to learn more...
View ArticleTraces of the Civil War in California
Cities nationwide — including in California — are confronting their Confederate history after a violent and fatal weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Where Are They Now: Bryan Pezeshki
Co-founder of Swipe Out Hunger and proud Bruin Bryan Pezeshki ’12, MBA ’16 has a passion for service. He recently obtained his M.D. from Duke University and aspires to direct his passion toward...
View ArticleUCLA biologists slow aging, extend lifespan of fruit flies
UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine — turning back the clock on a key component of aging.
View Article$5 million gift from Morton La Kretz will support renovation of UCLA Botany...
The restoration and improvements made possible by the donation will enhance research and teaching on plant, conservation and environmental biology in the UCLA College’s department of ecology and...
View Article$2 million gift from alumnus establishes UCLA faculty chairs in chemistry and...
The gift will create the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Polymer Science and the Dr. Myung Ki Hong Endowed Chair in Materials Innovation.
View ArticleArthur Ashe’s legacy to live on at UCLA
UCLA’s newly acquired exhibit materials include numerous photographs by Moutoussamy-Ashe, whose work has been exhibited at major museums and galleries, including the Smithsonian and the National...
View ArticleUCLA receives $5 million to establish center for the study of Hellenic culture
The center, which will be housed in the UCLA College, will build on the university’s strengths in Hellenic studies and support research across disciplines ranging from archaeology and classics to...
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In memoriam: Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, 88, renowned Indo-Europeanist...
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, a world renowned linguist, Indo-Europeanist, anthropologist and literary scholar who was a member of the UCLA community for the past quarter-century, died on October 7....
View ArticleUCLA professors of biology and chemistry honored as 2017 Packard fellows
Elaine Hsiao, UCLA assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 outstanding young scientists in the...
View ArticleUCLA receives $1 million for Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali postdoctoral...
Named for the renowned linguist Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, the fellowship will promote research on the linguistic heritage of Iran, focused on Persian and Iranian languages.
View ArticleUCLA presents inaugural Pritzker Award to environmental economist Dan Hammer
Hammer is an environmental economist and data expert, and the co-founder of Earth Genome, a nonprofit that seeks to provide environmental data to decision makers.
View ArticleHydrogen cars for the masses one step closer to reality, thanks to UCLA...
UCLA researchers have designed a device that can use solar energy to inexpensively and efficiently create and store energy, which could be used to power electronic devices, and to create hydrogen fuel...
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